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Simon O'Riordan from UK13-Jan-15 21:00
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Simon O'Riordan from UK13-Jan-15 21:46
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Simon O'Riordan from UK13-Jan-15 20:49
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MehGerbil14-Jan-15 2:05
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Alan Balkany14-Jan-15 5:04
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Jim McCool14-Jan-15 5:10
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The US tried something similar back in the 90's, but was slightly smarter about it. Anyone remember the clipper chip? This inexpensive chip was to be installed in phones, PCs, anywhere "secure" encryption was needed. It also provided for key escrow so that any authorized government entity could obtain the key.

It never did catch on, and the public backlash resulted in several free public encryption schemes including PGP, which is still in use.
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